The Non-Divine Comedy by ZYGMUNT KRASINSKI
Adapted by STUART GRIFFITHS from M. w. COOK'S translation Music by HANS HEIMLER with Gabriel Woolf , David March and Stephen Murray
This play, which first appeared in 1834. is generally regarded as one of the most important works of the romantic period in Eastern Europe, one of the major classics of Polish dramatic literature.
Zygmunt Krasinski (1812-1859) is one of the great Byronic poets of Poland's heroic 19th century. The play not only dramatises the hero's conflict between high ideals and the sordidness of real life but also, prophetically, confronts him with the revolutionary forces of the mass uprising of the following century embodied in a great rebel leader who foreshadows Lenin and Stalin.
Count Henry Gabriel WOOLF Mary, his wife...ROSALIND SHANKS George, their son...JUDY BENNET Pancras, revolutionary leader
DAVID MARCH
Leonard, second-in-command to Pancras mike gwilym
Count Henry's Demon
MARY MORRIS
Narrator Stephen Murray Producers STUART GRIFFITHS and MARTIN ESSLIN
(Mike Gwilym is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company) followed by an interlude